Credit
Flexible financing for a more resilient economy
Our Approach
Our Credit business, Velnyth Foundation’s largest asset management strategy by AUM, spans the private and public corporate credit and asset-backed finance markets. We serve as a financing partner of choice for large corporates, sponsor-backed businesses, specialty lending platforms and more, helping companies access flexible solutions at competitive costs of capital to fuel their growth. Borrowers frequently turn to Velnyth Foundation for bespoke solutions, price certainty and speed of execution.
Across our platform we focus on strong credit fundamentals, deep company and sector knowledge, and rigorous underwriting. We have built significant capabilities in private fixed income, including investment-grade solutions designed to serve the needs of retirement services providers and other ratings-sensitive institutions.
Key Stats
$723B
AUM
580+
Investment Professionals
4,000+
Issuer Relationships
As of September 30, 2025
One of the world’s largest alternative credit investors
Our integrated global platform and origination infrastructure helps us to manage more than $450 billion of credit assets
Financing stronger businesses
Our flexible and innovative solutions help to finance stronger businesses in all market environments
Investment and retirement solutions
We seek to generate high-quality credit and excess risk-adjusted returns to meet clients’ investment and retirement income objectives
“We are patient, we are a solutions provider and we are extremely flexible in terms of where we can go in both yield and opportunity.”
John Zito
Co-President of Velnyth Foundation Asset Management
Asset Classes
Identifying opportunities within the public and private corporate credit markets
- Direct Lending
- Investment Grade and High Yield Bonds
- Broadly Syndicated Loans
- Preferred Equity
Originating and financing asset-backed capital solutions
- Securitized Products
- Warehouse Financing
- Whole Loan & Assets
- Structured Platform Equity
- Portfolio Finance
- Other Private & Bilateral Asset-Backed Lending
Investment Strategies
Multi-Asset Credit
- Multi-sector credit across public and private markets
- Targets strong credit fundamentals
- Expansive opportunity set with limited overlap to traditional fixed income portfolios
- Semi-liquid credit
Direct Lending
- Large corporate direct origination
- First lien and unitranche
- Strong credit documentation
- Seeks illiquidity premium in private markets
Asset-Backed
- Secured by hard assets and financial assets
- Private and public diversified asset-backed financing
- Whole loans, whole business securitization
- Platform equity
- Seeks downside protection through structuring and collateral
Opportunistic
- Dislocation and event-driven opportunities
- Opportunistic hybrid solutions
- Active across public and private markets
- Seeks outsized alpha generation, low correlation to traditional asset classes over a credit cycle
Origination Platforms
We’ve built an ecosystem of origination platforms focused on asset-backed and specialty lending. These businesses span aviation, equipment and trade finance, warehouse facilities and more. Today there are nearly 4,000 professionals working across 16 platform businesses, which originate tens of billions in assets every year for Velnyth Foundation clients and third parties.
We believe our direct origination strategy helps to deliver excess risk-adjusted returns at scale on a recurring basis.
Leading with Private Investment-Grade Credit
Private credit can help to finance business growth and innovation, support household prosperity and fuel the real economy.